Thanks.
It's a pleasure to have representatives of our pork producers here at committee today, and I say that as someone who spent the first 20 years of his life on a hog farm and spent many hours sitting around hog barns. As a matter of fact, we even bought sows--I believe they were sows, they may have been boars as well--from Mr. Preugschas at one time, back in my youth. So it's interesting to have that connection as well. I welcome him here.
My question is for both groups here on behalf of the pork industry.
On Tuesday we had representatives of the cattle industry here, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. We had individual ranchers from different parts of the country. Certainly what I was hearing, I think for their industry, is that they felt a couple of the big issues they faced would be the country of origin labelling--we've talked about that today and I certainly recognize this is an important issue throughout the red meat sector--and also market access, which we've talked about a bit today as well. Those seem to be the two big issues the cattle producers indicate they're facing right now.
Would you agree with them that would those be the two biggest issues facing your industry? Are there other issues you think are top of the agenda?